Re: [PATCH] iio: mma8452: mark expected switch fall-through

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Mar 03 2019 - 12:04:37 EST


On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:07:28 -0600
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2/20/19 11:21 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2/20/19 6:17 AM, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> >> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:23:18 -0600
> >> "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch
> >>> cases where we are expecting to fall through.
> >>>
> >>> This patch fixes the following warning:
> >>>
> >>> drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c: In function âmma8452_probeâ:
> >>> drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c:1581:6: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
> >>> if (ret == data->chip_info->chip_id)
> >>> ^
> >>> drivers/iio/accel/mma8452.c:1584:2: note: here
> >>> default:
> >>> ^~~~~~~
> >>>
> >>> Warning level 3 was used: -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3
> >>>
> >>> Notice that, in this particular case, the code comment is modified
> >>> in accordance with what GCC is expecting to find.
> >>>
> >>> This patch is part of the ongoing efforts to enable
> >>> -Wimplicit-fallthrough.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> I know Peter probably won't like this, as it doesn't
> >> read a as well, with the else dropped, but I'm going to take
> >> it as we have had a lot of bugs caught by this code and this
> >> is generating a false positive.
> >>
> >> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing
> >> for the autobuilders to play with it.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, Jonathan.
> >
>
> BTW, Jonathan, I wonder if you can apply this one too:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/996804/
>
> Thanks
Now resolved. The issue here was the code was 'interesting/crazy' so
we needed someone with hardware to rewrite it and test the result.

Simply fixing the fall through wasn't enough :(

Jonathan

> --
> Gustavo